Protect your creative assets with intelligent image comparison.
Image Theft Checker is a powerful, web-based tool designed to help creators, photographers, designers, and businesses uncover unauthorized use of their images across the internet. With advanced scanning and matching capabilities, it analyzes and compares images between two websitesâyour own and any target site you suspectâto detect potential image theft.
đ§ How It Works:
Automated Image Scanning: Crawl and download all images from both your website and the target website.
Smart Comparison Engine: Compare the two sets of images based on:
Visual Similarity â Detect altered images, even those with filters, slight crops, or format changes.
File Name Analysis â Spot reused file names.
Copyright Metadata Matching â Catch heavily modified images if they contain your copyright metadata still.
đď¸ Fine-Tuned Detection:
Customize the visual similarity threshold to widen or narrow your search. Find everything from exact matches to heavily edited versions of your workâincluding resized, reformatted, or lightly retouched copies.
đ Easy Reporting:
Export all scan results in a CSV format for record-keeping, legal documentation, or further analysis.
Image Theft Checker puts the control back in your handsâso you can identify image misuse quickly, take action, and protect your creative rights.
Hello everyone, in this video I'll be showing you how to use our image theft checker tool.
So this tool is pretty simple: you point it at your own website, and it will download all your images. You point it at the website you suspect might be stealing some of your images, and it will download all their images, and then it will compare those two sets of images for any identical or similar images.
Before we show you the tool in action, we'll quickly go through some of these settings. Here you enter your own website. If weâve scanned your website before, weâll give you the option of using a saved scan so we donât have to re-download all your images. That will speed up the check considerably.
Here you enter the website you suspect might be stealing some of your images, and then finally your scan speed. If it's a website you know can handle a lot of concurrent connections and it won't block the IP address we're scanning from, then feel free to crank that up. If you're unsure, just leave it down at five, and that will allow us to scan both websites with no issues.
Letâs kick off a scan and then come back and look at the results. Now that scan happened very quickly because we're using the saved scan of our website, and the website weâre comparing against is only two pages big, because it's just a little demo website.
Letâs have a look at the first result. This is our image here on our legitimate website, and this is the image we copied onto our demo website. You can see itâs found that itâs identical. You can click here to see where the images are on our website, and click here to see where the image is on the demo website.
You can also see the match reasons â this is why we flagged it as a match. We can see thereâs an appearance match, meaning we used some pretty complicated algorithms to check that they are perceptually the same. Thereâs also a file name match, because often people steal images and donât even change the file name, and thatâs quite a big giveaway.
Now weâll scroll down and have a look at the next image. Again, this is an image from the page about this tool, and you can see we copied that and put it on our demo website here, and itâs flagged it.
The only remaining thing to show is the sensitivity setting. If you want to flag anything that looks even remotely similar, you can turn that down to a loose setting â images that are kind of similar and identical will be flagged. But if you're getting a lot of false positives, crank it back up to strict, and it'll only show identical images.
One other thing worth showing: if you have a lot of images and youâve put copyright metadata into them, often people will steal those images, upload them to their own websites, but not even bother to remove the copyright metadata inside the image. That metadata is not visible, but it's inside the file. So when they upload it, that metadata stays within the file. If you know you've put that in there, our tool will hopefully pick that up, because we compare the copyright metadata on all the images.
Okay, that concludes our demo. I hope you find this tool useful. Again, you just point it at your own website, point it at a website you think might steal your images, and itâll download all the images, compare them, and then give you options to filter and view the results.
Thatâs it. As always, thank you for watching.
